Western Stories

Caroline, recently divorced, estranged from her children and former friends, was lonely. Then her father died and she travelled north to arrange the funeral, sell the house and clear Pop's possessions. These include her father's dream car, a maroon Jaguar bought just before Caroline's mother died and her father's crippling stroke. The car hadn't moved in 30 years, but because it meant so much to Pop, she was loath to scrap it. She smiled as she sat in the driving seat...

Professor David Faeth was getting ready to head home. The day had been a rough one in the office, filled with student schedule changes and grade appeals. It was also his wedding anniversary, and he was anxious to get home. He was just about done stuffing paperwork and notebooks into his messenger bag and turning off the lights when he had a visitor who brought him news that was about to change his life forever—none of it good.

A murder, accidental manslaughter, traipsing across country, love and marriage in the late 1800's.

Eva Van der Heiden knows she will never find a man to love her. Her days are spent caring for her siblings and enjoying spinsterhood until her aunt matches her with a man under false pretenses. Luc de Jeu marries Eva thinking she will provide him with an heir when in fact, she thinks their union is a marriage of convenience. Can their marriage last when they both have different expectations?

In the town of Wilson's Gulch, the Sheriff's daughter held a secret not even her beloved father knew. Kitty Tucker had something no woman had a right to possess. She hid her difference well, but it became harder to hide when the pretty new schoolmarm moved into the boardin' house and took the room right next to Kitty's!

His widowed mother and her sister ran a dry goods store in 1870. His sister helped out and he did odd jobs to make a little cash. A group of cowboys tried to rape his aunt, and they killed the sheriff when he tried to arrest them. So Bobby put on the sheriff's badge and went after the miscreants. They should have surrendered peaceably. But they didn't.

Wyoming, 1860. Seized from a burning wagon train, Mary Ellen Cates is brought to a Shoshone camp for one purpose — to nurse a warrior's dying infant daughter. What begins as survival becomes something neither of them planned. Grey Wolf calls her Snow Bird. She calls his camp home. But the world outside the willows is closing in, and January 1863 is coming for everything they've built.

Wyoming, 1878. When schoolteacher Angela Parker boards a stagecoach to meet a stranger who placed a notice in a Philadelphia newspaper, she carries two things: a satchel and a hidden return ticket. She never planned to stay. He never planned to beg. But Coulter Brooks doesn't want a captive — he wants a partner. And two weeks on the Wyoming frontier, under wide skies and honest stars, has a way of changing what a woman thinks she wants. A choice freely made. And kept.

Prince Albert (his mother had a sense of humor) was born in Texas at the time of the War and the Comanche wars. His grandfather taught him to play poker so well that he was a rich man by the time he was an adult. He played poker on ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean and wiped out a gang of pirates in the Mediterranean Sea. That led to being hired to protect shipping from pirates off the coast of China. He was so successful that he wound up owning 10% of a shipping company. 20 chapters.

A story in the OUT of TIME Universe
Time not distance. A young man finds himself in late 1800 Western America.